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Beyond Online Course Evaluations: Student-Led Focus Groups for Curricular Feedback Cover

Beyond Online Course Evaluations: Student-Led Focus Groups for Curricular Feedback

Open Access
|Sep 2026

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Themes identified following exit-interviews with students and faculty.

CODE# OF STUDENT REFERENCES# OF FACULTY REFERENCESPERCENT TOTAL
Collaboration1122.42
    Co-creation1112.23
    Shared Responsibility010.19
Engagement29219.29
    Authentic interest911.86
    Honesty410.93
    Sample Size16196.51
Environment115622.49
    Safety115622.49
        Anonymous320.93
        Peers2424.83
        Facilitators3105.76
        Food2705.02
        Intimate Setting1312.60
        No faculty1613.16
Practices14811649.07
    Alignment with expectations and needs14010846.10
        Longitudinal feedback3143.16
        Quality of feedback184411.52
        Representative feedback614118.96
            Focus Groups482213.01
            OASIS12185.58
        Thoughtful engagement with feedback58311.34
            Student engagement with OASIS2815.39
                Significant time or work burden1713.35
            Student participation in OASIS1312.60
            Student engagement in focus groups1713.35
        Content delivery882.97
Relationship801016.73
    Commitment351.49
    Respect611.30
    Trust71413.94
        Closed-loop communication2103.90
        Course Representatives1623.35
        Faculty3015.76
Figure 1

Student Experience. Tree map in which the size of the box corresponds to the proportional frequency of a specific code among transcripts obtained from interviews with students. This data is also presented in tabulated form in Table 1.

Figure 2

Faculty Experience. Tree map in which the size of the box corresponds to the proportional frequency of a specific code among transcripts obtained from interviews with course directors and administrators. This data is also presented in tabulated form in Table 1.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/pme.1786 | Journal eISSN: 2212-277X
Language: English
Page range: 748 - 758
Submitted on: Mar 16, 2025
Accepted on: Aug 28, 2026
Published on: Sep 9, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2026 David Rekhtman, Jessica Campanile, Alex F. Nisbet, Abigail Kohler, Jennifer Hong, Ish Sethi, Suzanne Rose, C. Jessica Dine, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.